expense of conveying said person to the office of the superintendent of the poor shall be borne by the town or locality upon which said applicant is a charge.

§ 2. The keeper of the Erie county almshouse shall not receive any person as an inmate of said institution, except upon the written order of the superintendent of the poor of Erie county. § 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

AN ACT in relation to habitual drunkards, vagrants and prostitutes in the county of Erie.

Chapter 552, Laws of 1875.

Section 1. Whenever any prostitute, female vagrant or habitual drunkard in the county of Erie, between the ages of fourteen and thirty years, shall be arrested and brought before the police justice of the city of Buffalo, or any of the justices of the peace in the city of Buffalo, and shall profess a desire to reform, such police justice or justice of the peace, may in his discretion, make an order, committing such female to the care, custody and instruction of the managers of The Asylum of Our Lady of Refuge. the Ingleside Home of the city of Buffalo, or the Salvation Army Rescue Home of the city of Buffalo, for such period of time as may be authorized by law for the punishment of such prostitute, vagrant and habitual drunkard, but no person shall be committed to the said The Asylum of Our Lady of Refuge, Ingleside Home, or Salvation Army Rescue Home, without the written consent of such person, and such committing magistrate shall forthwith make and file a copy of such commitment in the clerk's office of Erie county; it shall also be the duty of the county clerk of said county to make a report of such commitments filed in his office during the preceding year, to the board of supervisors of said county at their annual meeting. (As amended by chapter 640 of the Laws of 1907.)

§ 2. Whenever any person committed as aforesaid, shall become disorderly, disobedient or ungovernable, the said managers are hereby authorized to return such person to the committing magistrate or police justice, to be disposed of by due course of law.

§ 3. The city of Buffalo shall pay to the managers of the said The Asylum of Our Lady of Refuge, the Ingleside Home, and the Salvation Army Rescue Home of the city of Buffalo, such sum not exceeding one dollar and fifty cents per week as the board of supervisors shall determine, for the maintenance of each and every person who shall be committed to said institutions under and in pursuance of this act; and the accounts of said managers for such support and maintenance shall be audited, and the payment thereof provided for, in the same manner as for other accounts against the city. (As amended by chapter 640 of the Laws of 1907.)

AN ACT to create the office of commissioner of charities and correction of the county of Erie, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such office.

Chapter 293, Laws of 1913.

Section 1. There is hereby created in and for Erie county, the office of commissioner of charities and correction. The term of office shall be six years, and the salary thereof shall be five thousand dollars per annum. In case of a vacancy occurring during a term the same shall be filled by appointment by the board of supervisors until the first day of January next following the ensuing general election, except that if such vacancy occurs within thirty days prior to the general election, a commissioner shall not be elected until the general election in the year following, and the commissioner appointed by the board of supervisors shall continue in office until the first day of January following such election. A commissioner elected at a general election shall hold his office for the full term of six years. A commissioner shall give a bond in the penal sum of five thousand dollars for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office. A commissioner shall be elected at the general election in the year nineteen hundred and thirteen.

§ 2. Upon the taking of office by the commissioner elected in the year nineteen hundred and thirteen all the rights, powers, authority and jurisdiction now possessed by, and all duties devolving upon the superintendent or keeper of the penitentiary, the superintendent of the county home and hospital, otherwise

called keeper of the almshouse or poor house, the superintendent of poor, the medical examiner and assistant medical examiner, the superintendent of the county lodging house, and the keeper of the morgue shall devolve upon, and be possessed, exercised and performed by such commissioner in person or by deputy.

§ 3. The commissioner shall have the power to appoint and at pleasure remove all officers and employees serving in or connected with the penitentiary, the almshouse or county home, the county hospital, the office of the medical examiner, the county lodging house and the morgue. The commissioner shall appoint a deputy to be known as the county physician, who, under the commissioner, shall have charge and control of the county hospital, and of the physicians, nurses and employees employed thereat or serving therein; of the care of the sick, confined in the penitentiary; of the physicians, medical attendants, and nurses employed or serving at the penitentiary and at the county lodging house; of the morgue, and of the keepers and employees serving in the morgue. The said county physician, under the commissioner, and in person, or by an assistant, or by assistants, lawfully appointed or employed, shall exercise the powers and perform the duties now exercised and performed by the medical examiner and the deputy medical examiner, save as herein otherwise especially provided. In addition to the powers conferred upon the commissioner by existing law or by this act, he may appoint and at pleasure remove such deputies, subordinates, clerks and employees as may be authorized by the board of supervisors, and at such salaries or compensation as may be fixed by said board. The commissioner shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as the said board may prescribe.

§ 4. Notwithstanding the provisions hereof, a superintendent of the poor and a superintendent of the county home and hospital, otherwise called the keeper of the almshouse, or poor house, heretofore elected, and in office on January first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, shall continue to be such superintendents respectively, with such powers and duties as the commissioner may prescribe, until the expiration of the terms for which they were severally elected; and at the expiration of the terms of said incumbents said offices shall cease and determine.

Fulton County.

AN ACT for the care and support of the poor in the county of Fulton.

Chapter 155, Laws of 1886.

Section 1. All the paupers who are now inmates, and whose names appear on the books kept at the poorhouse, in the county of Fulton, shall be county paupers as long as they shall remain continuously at said poorhouse; if any of the said paupers shall be discharged by the superintendent of the poor of said county, or shall voluntarily leave and cease to be supported at said poorhouse, said paupers' names shall be stricken from the books at the poorhouse, and shall thereafter cease to be county paupers, unless they are returned to said poorhouse within a period of All the cost and expenses for the care, support and maintenance of said county paupers shall be a county charge and shall be paid by the county of Fulton. All the paupers who are legally admitted to the poorhouse in said county after the pas sage of this act (except as above mentioned) shall be town paupers, and all the cost and expense for the care, support and maintenance of such town paupers shall be charged to and paid by the town from which the said paupers were sent.

one year.

§ 2. The superintendent of the poor shall, within ten days after the passage of this act, determine and designate, by name, all paupers who are supported and maintained at said poorhouse at the passage of this act, from each of the towns in said county; said names shall be filed in the office of the county clerk of said county, and recorded in the book of miscellaneous records. The superintendent of the poor shall send a list of the names to the supervisor of each town in said county of all the paupers supported and maintained at said poorhouse sent from their respective towns; said list, if correct, shall be indorsed with the approval of the supervisor of said town, and filed in the office of the town clerk of said town.

§ 3. All the cost and expenses for the care, support and maintenance of all the poor outside of the poorhouse who are now or who may hereafter become a public charge in said county, and

all the permanent, temporary and transient relief shall be a charge against the city or town where the commissioner of charities or supervisor granting the relief resides, and where such expense shall have accrued, except as hereinafter provided, and all such expense shall be audited exclusively by the common council of said city and the board of town auditors of said town, and shall be audited and paid in the same manner as other city and town charges are audited and paid. The board of supervisors of the county of Fulton is hereby prohibited from auditing, allowing or paying any account of any person or officer, for the care, support and maintenance of the poor in said county, or for permanent, temporary or transient relief, or the expense of granting the same, except such accounts as are by law chargeable to the said county. Any person who shall send, remove or entice to remove, or bring, or cause to be sent, removed or brought, any poor or indigent person, from any city or town of said county, to any other city or town of said county, or from any other county, or any city or town of any other county, to any city or town of said county, without legal authority, and there leave such person, for the purpose of avoiding the charge of such poor or indigent person upon the city, town or county from which he is so sent, removed or brought or enticed to remove, shall forfeit fifty dolars, to be recovered by and in the name of the town or city of said county to which such poor person shall be sent, brought or removed, or enticed to remove, and shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. A poor person so removed, brought or enticed, or who shall of his own accord come or stray from one city or town of said county into any other city or town of said county, or from any other county, or any city or town of any other county, into any city or town of said county not legally chargeable with his support, shall be maintained by the commissioner of charities of the city or the supervisor of the town where he may be. They may give notice to either of the overseers of the poor of the town or city from which he was brought or enticed, or came as aforesaid, if such town or city be liable for his support, and if there be no town or city in the county from which he was brought or enticed or came liable for his support, then to either of the county superintendents of the poor of such county, within ten days after